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Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, December 25, 2025
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Authors sue OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, and Perplexity over alleged use of ‘pirated books’ in training, pushing data governance into the courts.
Disney is investing $1B in OpenAI and licensing 200+ characters to Sora, tying Hollywood IP directly to the generative video race.
Google’s Disco AI browser turns tabs into small web apps, signaling that the browser is becoming an AI agent hub.
ChatGPT’s Spotify-style recap and Nothing’s AI-centric device show both software and hardware drifting toward AI-native experiences.
The Full Story
Following Monday’s Mango-vs-Sora showdown and Tuesday’s world-model pitch from AMI Labs, yesterday we saw Grok wired into GenAI.mil. Today the question is simpler and sharper: who owns what these models see and create?
On one side, authors are suing OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, and Perplexity over “pirated books” in training data. That’s AI governance moving from think pieces to court dockets. The complaint isn’t just about money; it challenges the data habits that powered the entire model war. Copyright suit breakdown -> Labs like OpenAI -> and Anthropic -> now have to defend both their models and their data pipelines.
On the other side, content giants are choosing sides. The Walt Disney Company is putting $1B into OpenAI and handing Sora rights to 200+ characters. That’s a huge vote that the future of animation and marketing runs through generative video, not just human storyboards. Disney–OpenAI deal details -> It’s a direct extension of Monday’s Sora rivalry: now the winner also gets iconic IP.
The interface war is heating up too. Google’s Disco browser turns web tabs into custom AI-powered apps, basically saying the browser is the new operating system for agents. How Google Disco works -> That slots neatly into our “AI Security as a First-Class Product” thread: once your browser is an agent, prompt injection and data controls stop being niche research problems.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT’s Spotify-style recap and badges look like a playful consumer feature, but they echo our “Newsrooms Go AI-Native” storyline—feeds built automatically from your own interaction history. ChatGPT recap feature ->
And at the hardware edge, Nothing teaming up with OpenAI to push an AI-first device shows the phone itself is up for debate. Nothing–OpenAI hardware push -> Add in Hacker News buzzing about NVIDIA allegedly buying Groq for $20B, and the “Global AI Infrastructure Fragmentation Intensifies” narrative looks more like consolidation at the top than chaos. Track that infra narrative ->
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